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    Hell and High Water: How Global Warming Will Forever Change
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    Hell and High Water: How Global Warming Will Forever Change
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    Hell and High Water: How Global Warming Will Forever Change

    By Joe Romm

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    About this ebook

    Global warming is the story of the twenty-first century. It is the most serious issue facing the future of humankind, but American energy and environmental policy is driving the whole world down a path toward global catastrophe. According to Joseph Romm, we have ten years, at most, to start making sharp cuts to our greenhouse gas emissions, or we will face disastrous consequences. The good news, he writes, is that there is something we can do—but only if the leadership of the U.S. government acts immediately and asserts its influence on the rest of the world.

    Hell and High Water is nothing less than a wake-up call to the country. It is a searing critique of American environmental and energy policy, and a passionate call to action by a writer with a unique command of the science and politics of climate change.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061868443
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    Hell and High Water: How Global Warming Will Forever Change
    Author

    Joe Romm

    Joseph Romm is the founder and executive director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions and a fellow at the Center for American Progress. Under President Clinton he was acting assistant secretary at the Department of Energy, heading the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The author of the award-winning The Hype About Hydrogen, he holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT and lives in Washington, D.C.

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      Romm's summary of the problem of global warming is not the best out there, his focus is too centered on the United States, and the links between his proposed solutions and the gravity of the problem are weak at best.But his book is the only one that has a firm grasp of the politically feasible, and if the U.S. get their act together and do something about global warming, the policies they will enact will probably follow along Romm's blueprint, and this political pragmatism is the book's great advantage over others of its kind.